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...design and architecture, however, there was a strangely short period of clarity and balance just after the century turned, an aesthetic blip that coincided with the fruitful first few years of the Werkstatte. Hoffmann, Moser and its other founders, repelled by the residual fairy-tale flourishes of aging Jugendstil (literally, Youth Style, the German Art Nouveau), sloughed off applied ornament and embraced elemental geometries -- the right angle, the circle, the sphere. In his thoughtful, gracefully written catalog for MOMA, Adjunct Curator Kirk Varnadoe says that Moser and Hoffmann were out "to recover richness from reduction." The result, briefly...
...crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could be found at an estimated depth of 6,000 ft., at week's end sonar scanners aboard a British seabed operations vessel, H.M.S. Challenger, detected a firm signal that Irish authorities identified as the recorders' "homing blip...
...pain that I had felt when I tried to scale Heartbreak Hill. It was not the pain that I had felt when I was running past Boston College, with the Prudential Center only a blip on the horizon...
...time ratings, ABC has proved to be a skilled and tenacious competitor. "I think their problems have been overstated," says Fred Silverman, who ran the network's programming department during its boom years of the 1970s. "My guess is that ABC's performance at this point is a temporary blip. You'll see them bounce back...
...programs or series and has launched a multimillion-dollar national advertising campaign to promote them. More than 12 million cable homes now receive some or all of A&E's 20-hour-a-day schedule, usually as part of their basic cable service. Though viewership is still a tiny blip on A.C. Nielsen's meters, A&E is hanging...